Memorial Day - How Many Have We Lost In The Usa? More Than A Million.

War has been around since Genesis 14. Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans — the Grand Army of the Republic — established "it" as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A. Logan declared it should be May 30.

https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/celebrate/memday.pdf

We have lost about 1,010,985 in wars in our Nation.

Revolutionary War 4435

War of 1812 2260

Mexican War 13283

Civil War 364511

Spanish American War 2446

WWI 116516

WWII 405399

Korean War 36574

Vietnam "Conflict" 58220

Persian Gulf War 382

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/summaryData/casualties/principalWars May 17, 2024

Operation Iraqi Freedom 4,431

Operation Enduring Freedom 2,354

Operation New Dawn 74

https://www.defense.gov/casualty.pdf May 17, 2024

Operation Inherent Resolve 23

Operation Freedom's Sentinel 77

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oir/byCategory

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/ofs/byCategory

President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address given on 19 NOV 1863 on the battlefield in PA states:

"we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text